Knitted cap and method of making the same



June 8 1926.

P. STRASCHIL'L NEE LORBER KNITTED GAP ANDMETHOD 0F MAKING THE SAME Filed Feb. 12. 1925 5140010 56: flu]; JimcAL-zz- @51 hr flbtovnu fg/uwub Patented June 8, 1926.

UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

KNITTED CAP AND METHGD OF MAKING THE SAME.

Application filed. February This invention relates to improvements in knitted caps or the like, and to a novel and improved method of making the same.

It is the principal object of the invention to provide a cap for infants, children, etc, which is readily and cheaply made from a piece of fabric made on what is known as a flat knitting machine and shown, for instance, in the United States Patent 163,985 of June 11, 1875, according to my novel and improved method.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a knitted head gear of the tam oshanter type made according to my novel and improved method.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a neck-piece or boa made according to the method forming part of this invention.

A still further object of the invention is the novel and improved method of making knitted caps, tam oshanters and neck-pieces from a flat piece of fabric by removing the rear or background meshes from part of the fabric and rolling the same to form the rim or brim of the cap and by stitching the ends of the fabric together to form either a cap, or a tam oshanter or a boa, etc.

These and other objects of my invention will become more fully known, as the description thereof proceeds. and will then be specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing, forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary top plan view of a knitted blank or piece of flatfabric from which a cap is to be made according to my novel and improved method.

Fig. 2 is an end view thereof.

Fig. 3 shows a finished cap made according to the present invention.

Fig. 4 shows a so-called tam oshanter made according to my novel and improved method.

Fig. 5 illustrates in top plan view a neckpiece or boa also constructed according to the invention.

As shown in Figure 1, the blank, or piece of fabric 10 is knitted on a so-called fiat knitting machine by making three tours fancy and five tours halfround to make the longitudinal webs 11, and the flat fabric strips 12 separating each pair of halfround 12, 1925. Serial No. 8,832.

webs; covered at the rear by a flat knitted background fabric 13.

Before the formation of the cap or the like from this blank, the backing is removed by hand by tearing it out laterally as shown in Figure 1 by way of example in the middle. It is to be understood however,

by means of a long continuous stroke. The

extreme outer or marginal end of the fabric is united by means of a longitudinally eX- tending thread or entwined threads 17.

The cap is then shaped in the usual manner by drawing the fabric together at the top to form. thecenter top piece 18, and the ends of the fabric are stitched together, knitted together, or united in any well known manner to form the cap as indicated at 19, Figure 3. It will be clear that the pressing of the rim fabric 15 by means of the fingers gliding along the part of the blank from the rear to the front will effect a curling of the rim indicated in Figure 3, and the upper inner margin of the rim fabric may also be stitched or other 'ise united with the body forming the cap crown proper; A cord.

ribbon or the like 20 may be laid or guided around the lower body part of the cap just above the rim thereof, as shown in Figure 3, and the outer ends of the cord may be ornamented in any desired manner, as for in stance by tufts, or tassels.

The tam os-hanter 21 illustrated in Figure at is formed in a similar manner by shaping the partof the fabric from which the background has not been removed to form the crown 21 and by leaving the lower part straight, while a band or cord may be pro vided to separate the upper crown part from the lower rim part as indicated at 22. A tassel o3 closes the top of the tam oshanter.

In Figure 5 a neck-piece or boa is formed by cutting a comparatively narrow elongated piece from the blank, and after r moval of the background therefrom the Webs 15 and the separating fabric 12 therebetvveen are curled or folded at 25 and 26, and their meeting edges are united by a longitudinal seam or stitching 28, While the ends are equipped with tassels 27 or the like in the manner illustrated in Figure 5.

My improved method of forming aknitted cap, tam oshanter or boa consists indraiving or tearing the background of apiece of fabric made in the above described manner laterally from the body of the fabric, curling the Webs and connecting fabric in the manner illustrated in the drawing by sliding a finger along the fabric between the webs and pressing the same from the rear towards the front so as to effect a curling of the marginal strip from .WlllOll the background has been previously removed. It further consists in uniting the ends of the fabric blank by knitting etc. and by drawing the. fabric together at the top, or in case of a neck-piece by uniting the ends of the curled fabric length by a centrally located seam or knitted joint. The cap is bunched together as indicated at 18 in Figure 3,

'Wl1ll0 a tassel or tuft orv the like is atsimple, yet eflicient method from a flat piece.

of fabric, and that such changes may be made in the general arrangement of parts and their combination as Well as in the construction of the minor details of my invention as fall within the scope of the appended claims Without departure from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters. Patent is: V

1. A method of making knitted caps consisting in knitting a flat piece of fabric having a plurality of Webs and intervening flat parts and a back ground, removing said background from one end portion, curling the fabric at the part from which the background has been removed to form a rim, gathering the other end portion of the fabric, and uniting the lateral edges of the fabric.

2. The novel art of making knitted caps consisting in partially removing the flat knitted background from a blank made of three tours fancy and five tours halfround to produce a plurality of longitudinal raised Webs separated by a plurality of flat fabric strips, restricting the removal of the background Weave to an end marginal portion, curling said marginal portion, pressing the flat fabric strips from the rear to the front for Widening the meshes, binding the extreme outer edge of the said marginal portion of the fabric by means of a longitu dinally extending thread, gathering the opposite end of the blank and finally stitching the lateral ends of the blank together.

Signed at NeXvYork in the county of New York and State of New York this 11th day of February A. D. 1925.

PAULA STRASCHILL. 

